interesting perceptual effect:

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/sine-wave-speech/

Very interesting btw, keep posting more of this shiz (the only reason I didn't reply sooner is because I don't like seeing my name as last poster in every friggin forum!

ha ha, i know the feeling

i thought i was just me

I thought it was just me too! But no more! In the interests of disseminating Pd information and accelerating the Singularity, I hereby pledge not to concern myself with whether any of us is the last post in every forum.

Re: sine wave speech, I could understand the first one immediately, but not some of the others. I think the sentences with more consonants are easier.

So are we agreed that the objective is 'the singularity' and in this forum we will transcend time and reason with our funny robot voice fx?

I think this vocode reinterpretation can help break down the walls between lyric and melody. I believe there is something beneath poetry and music and language and meaning that is really really tasty. I want to eat it.